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Subject(s)

• Rhetoric, Ancient [Browse]
• Classical literature—History and criticism—Theory, etc [Browse]

Related name

• Katula, Richard A. [Browse]
• Hoppmann, Michael J. [Browse]

Summary note

A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each classical rhetor, rhetorical period, and source text, students are led to understand rhetoric's role in the exchange of knowledge and ideas.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 28, 2013).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Authors; Introduction; Part One Theories of Rhetoric; 1 The Origins of Rhetoric in the Democracy of Ancient Greece; 2 Rhetorical Consciousness and the Rise of the Sophists; 3 Aristotle's Rhetorical Theory; 4 From Greek to "Roman" Rhetoric, with Synopses of Three Pragmatic Handbooks; 5 The Rhetorical Theory of the Mature Cicero, With Synopses of His Major Rhetorical Works; 6 Quintilian's Place in Roman Rhetorical and Educational Theory, with a Synopsis of His Institutio oratoria
• 7 Epilogue: What Happened Next?Part Two Orations For Pleasure and Practice; Six Classical Texts for Reading, Study, and Discussion; Pericles, The Funeral Oration; Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension to the Invalid; Plato, The Apology of Socrates; Gorgias, Encomium to Helen; Demosthenes, The First Philippic; Cicero, The First Speech Against Lucius Sergius Catiline; Notes; A Basic Library for Further Study; Index

ISBN

• 0-415-53241-8
• 0-203-11484-1
• 1-136-29290-X
• 1-136-29291-8

OCLC

• 854977044
• 859160101

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203114841

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